Viewing Special Collections materials is by appointment only. Contact library@ccad.edu.

Bring your CCAD ID card. If your item has a barcode we will "check out" the item. If it doesn't have a barcode, we will hold your ID. For security purposes, we request that you sit at the table across for the circulation desk. One book may be viewed at a time unless special permission is given to view multiple books.

Book handling 101: Wash your hands (no moisturizer, please); no food or drinks allowed; stow belongings; pencil and notebook or laptops only; photos without flash are allowed, but not photocopies. 

The majority of our books are cataloged, but if you need an overview by subject, the inventory can be a valuable tool.

Some of the titles below link to digital versions online or useful information.

• Design by light; 98 studies in pattern; three dimensional color decoration and patterns in the abstract, 1939
• Design decade; Architectural forum ; v. 73, no. 4, 194
• Exposition 1937. Sections étrangères [Foreign pavilions], Exposition internationale (1937 : Paris, France) 
• Exposition 1937. Décoration intérieure [Interior decor], Exposition internationale (1937 : Paris, France)
• Formes et couleurs; vingt planches en couleurs contenant soixante-sept motifs décoratifs, Shapes and colors: twenty  sixty-seven decorative motifs],192-?
• Inspirations : twenty-four plates, with 128 compositions, c1928
• Modern American Design,  American Union of Decorative Artists and Craftsmen, 1930
• Sculpture décorative moderne, documents réunis par Henri Rapin, v. 1-3, 1925-29
• Variations : quatre-vingt-six motifs décoratifs en vingt planches, [Variations: eighty-six decorative motifs twenty plates],1924
• ​Wiener Werkstätte, 1903-1928 : the evolution of the modern applied arts, Josef Franz Maria Hoffmann, 1929

• The Art of the Book, Charles Holme, 1914
• Deutsche kunst und dekoration [German art and decoration], v. 15 & 18, 1897-1905
• ​Grossherzog Ernst Ludwig und die Ausstellung der künstler-kolonie in Darmstadt von mai bis oktober 1901 [Art of the Darmstadt Colony]
• International Studio, 1897-1931 (In Bound Periodicals)
• Little journeys to the homes of eminent artists Elbert Hubbard, 1907
• Modern Design in Jewelry and Fans, 1902 (Art Nouveau jewelry, including Lalique)
• La plante et ses applications ornementales, [The plant and its ornamental applications], 1898
• Vorbilder für kunstverglasungen im style der neuzeit [Examples of art glass in modern style], v. 1-2, Arnold Lyongrün, 1900 (Art Nouveau stained glass)
• Wiener Werkstätte, 1903-1928 : the evolution of the modern applied arts, Josef Franz Maria Hoffmann, 1929

• Artnews, 1926-31
• Cahiers d'art, June 1932 [Picasso]
• Design decade; Architectural forum ; v. 73, no. 4, 194
• Deutsche kunst und dekoration [German art & decoration], v. 15 & 18, 1897-1933
• Frank Lloyd Wright. Special issue of the Architectural Forum, vol. 68, no. 1, January 1938.
• International Studio, 1897-1931 (In Bound Periodicals)
• Print-collector's quarterly, 1911-1938

• Antique works of art from Benin, 1900
• Decoration primitive, Afrique, Portia Conrad Lepage, 1922
• Décoration primitive Océanie, Daniel Real, 1922
• Kultur und industrie südamerikanischer völker [Culture and industry of South American Peoples], 1889-9
• Peasant art in Sweden, Lapland and Iceland, 1910
• Religious art in Finland during the Middle Ages, 1921

• American art today : Gallery of American art today, New York World's Fair, 1939
• Catalogue of a Century of progress exhibition of paintings and sculpture, 1934. The Art institute of Chicago, June 1 to November 1, 1934.
• Composition: a series of exercises selected from a new system of art education, Arthur Wesley Dow, 1899
• De la couleur, Henri Matisse, 1945
• Exhibition of the art of the American Negro (1851 to 1940), 1940
• Frescoes of Diego Rivera, 1933  
• The Galleries of the Exposition  (Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco), 1915
• Museum of modern art, Moscow; thirty-five selected master pieces, 1935
• Mural painting of the Mexican Revolution, 1921-1960, 1960
• Paintings of George Bellows, 1929
• Sketchbook. Text by Raymond Cogniat. v. 1-3, Paul Gauguin, 1962

• Photographs of Mexico, Anton Bruehl, 1933

• Contempo, this American tempo, John Vassos, 1929
• Contemporary English Woodcuts, Campbell Dodgson, 1922
• Engravings, 1928-1933, Eric Gill, 1934
• God's Man, a Novel in Woodcuts 1927  Lynd Ward
• In the dawn of the world. Being twenty-five pictures illustrative of a portion of the book of Genesis by Edward Burne-Jones, 1903 
• Miró : das graphische Werk : the graphic work : l'oeuvre graphique, 1957
• Rossetti and his circle, 1922    Max Beerbohm
• The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam, illustrations by Edmund J. Sullivan, 1938
• ​Tony Sarg's New York, 1927   
• Die tragische Geschichte von Hamlet, Prinzen von Daenemark [Hamlet], illustrated by Edward Gordon Craig, 1929 [1967]

• American taste, Lewis Mumford, 1929
• Composition: a series of exercises selected from a new system of art education, Arthur Wesley Dow, 1899
• Everybody's autobiography, Gertrude Stein, 1937
• Why expressionism? Hilaire Hiler, 1946